What are the Professional Development Awards in Management?
Professional Development Awards (PDAs) are qualifications designed to enhance your managerial competences, including your knowledge and understanding, through development within the context of your current managerial work.
In this way, you should be able to work more effectively as a manager to the benefit of yourself and the organisation for which you work. You will also have demonstrated that you are able to work in accordance with the national occupational standards for managers. The awards can be described as workplace awards.
The qualification is a combination of workplace coaching and assessment.
Who is it for?
The awards aim to achieve three different purposes:
- You may attempt a PDA as an end in itself to meet a specific management development need which has arisen as part of your current managerial position.
- You may be able to undertake more than one PDA as part of a programme of management development.
- You may be able to use one or some of the awards as a stepping stone to further awards, such as, a full SVQ Management at Level 3 or Level 4.
- On successful completion of each of the PDAs in Management, you will achieve a joint certificate from SQA and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). CMI will recognise the PDAs for membership, but you would need at least 60 SCQF credit points at level 8 or above, to be eligible.
Why Tell?
Tell has delivered management qualifications for over 10 years. We give our candidates the opportunity to develop their management performance, become more effective within their company, and to progress their career.
There are no formal entry qualifications. However, as this is a practical, work-based qualification, participants must be working in an appropriate job role.
| Title of PDA | Units making up the PDA |
SCQF credit points |
| PDA in Managing Self and the Work of Others at SCQF level 8 (G9N5 48) |
A2 (DR67 04) Manage Your Own Resources and Professional Development (Level 7; credits 8) |
22 |
| PDA in Leadership at SCQF level 8 (G9MN 48) |
B6 (DR75 04) Provide Leadership in Your Area of Responsibility (Level 8; credits 9) |
20 |
| PDA in Managing Finances at SCQF level 8 (G9N2 48) |
E1 (DR5F 04) Manage a Budget (Level 7; credits 11) |
25 |
| PDA in Managing Projects and Business Processes at SCQF level 9 (G9N3 49) |
F1 (DR5J 04) Manage a Project (Level 8; credits 11) |
26 |
| PDA in Planning and Implementing Change at SCQF level 10 (G9MF 50) |
C6 (DR57 04) Implement Change (Level 10; credits 11) |
26 |
| PDA in Leading Change at SCQF level 10 (G9N1 50) |
C4 (DR56 04) Lead Change (Level 10; credits 15) |
27 |
How long does it take?
PDAs must be assessed over time. Typically, a PDA will take 3-4 months, although some participants will achieve in less time. Candidates are assessed individually, and can start at any time. For full details of the PDAs in Management, please contact:
The Tell Organisation Ltd
Tell House
Bankend Road
Dumbarton G82 2RT
Tel: 01389 726555
Fax: 01389 726677
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